Has anyone come up with a manual way to do a database rebuild for Office 2016 for Mac? One of the most common things I do for my Office 2011 users is rebuild their identity. While Outlook 2016 has been pretty nice so far, I ran into an issue with a user today that would have qualified for a DB rebuild.
Hey, For Outlook 2010, 2013 it was possible to programmatically create Outlook profile and set up all necessary RPCOVERHTTP connection settings via MAPI like in this article:. But it seems it does not work anymore for Outlook 2016. The main goal i try to achieve is to automatically create profile for end-user to simplify setup, so user will be able start outlook, type password and begin to work.
Is it ever possible to manually create profile providing only e-mail address and auto-discover url? Probably there are new mapi properties that have to be set? I tried to use MFCMapi to analyze set of properties for working profile created via Outlook, but i do not see anything special. I've found discussion there ( w/ similar question but w/o proper answer. For Outlook 2010, 2013 it was possible to programmatically create Outlook profile and set up all necessary RPCOVERHTTP connection settings via MAPI like in this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dvespa/archive/2014/01/16/create-outlook-profile-exchange-2013.aspx.
Outlook on Mac is implemented differently than on Windows. Outlook from Mac uses a single database which indexes smaller threads of data like contacts, and signatures stored in data records. If you have multiple accounts everything is stored within this one database.
This differs from Windows where each account generates an individual.pst file. When you unlink an account on Windows, the.pst with all the data for that account will persist and can be relinked to simply by adding it back to Outlook. As OS X has all of the data residing in one database. Removing the account removes its data from the database and you shouldn't have to track down a.pst file as you would in the Windows implementation. There is not even a way to archive and maintain the contents of an Outlook account in Outlook 2016 for Mac as there is in the Windows version. Refer to on AskDifferent. Note: I have deleted an account from Outlook for Mac 2016 before and it basically disappears from existence.
I couldn't say if a computer forensic scientist could rebuild this information, but the average user won't be able to get at it as they can with the Windows version.